Cesarean Section in Low Birth Weight Babies: An Original Research
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37506/mlu.v20i4.2209Keywords:
High-Risk Pregnancy; Cesarean Section; Low-Birth Weight Newborns; Prenatal Care; Gestational Age; Hypertensive Syndrome.Abstract
The high prevalence of high-risk pregnancies, which can lead to premature delivery, contributes to an increase
in the rates of preterm and low-birth weight (LBW) infants, with an increase in the number of cesarean
deliveries. This study was done to access maternal variables and their associations with cesarean deliveries of
LBW newborns. A retrospective study was conducted by reviewing the medical records of pregnant women
who underwent cesarean sections for the delivery of LBW infants (weight, ?1500 and 35 weeks at delivery,
and 50.8% attended less than eight prenatal consultations. Hypertensive syndrome (23.8%) was the main
indication for cesarean delivery. Among the newborns, 58.3% had an Apgar score of 7 in the first minute
of life, 79.3% had a score of 9 in the fifth minute of life, and 54.3% were females. Conclusions: Several
maternal variables such as primiparity, education level, number of prenatal consultations, and presence of
maternal hypertensive syndrome had a statistically significant association with the occurrence of cesarean
sections for the delivery of LBW infants.
